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<h2>Swiss Fertility and Socioeconomic Indicators (1888) Data</h2>

<h3>Description</h3>


<p>Standardized fertility measure and socio-economic indicators for
each of 47 French-speaking provinces of Switzerland at about 1888.
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<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data(swiss)</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>


<p>A data frame with 47 observations on 6 variables, each of which
is in percent, i.e., in [0,100].
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<p>[,1]  Fertility         Ig, &quot;common standardized fertility measure&quot;
[,2]  Agriculture       
[,3]  Examination       
nation
[,4]  Education         
[,5]  Catholic          
[,6]  Infant.Mortality  live births who live less than 1 year.
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<p>All variables but 'Fert' give proportions of the population.
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<h3>Source</h3>


<p>Project &quot;16P5&quot;, pages 549-551 in
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<p>Mosteller, F. and Tukey, J. W. (1977) &ldquo;Data Analysis and
Regression: A Second Course in Statistics&rdquo;. Addison-Wesley,
Reading Mass.
</p>
<p>indicating their source as &quot;Data used by permission of Franice van
de Walle. Office of Population Research, Princeton University,
1976.  Unpublished data assembled under NICHD contract number No
1-HD-O-2077.&quot;
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<h3>References</h3>


<p>Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) &ldquo;The New S
Language&rdquo;. Wadsworth &amp; Brooks/Cole.
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